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List of works by Jeff R. Powell

A new tool of the trade: plant-trait based approaches in microbial ecology

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A review of peer-review for Pedobiologia – Journal of Soil Ecology

scholarly article

A soil fungal metacommunity perspective reveals stronger and more localised interactions above the tree line of an alpine/subalpine ecotone

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Aboveground resource allocation in response to root herbivory as affected by the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

scientific article published in 2019

Abrupt rise in atmospheric CO2 overestimates community response in a model plant-soil system

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Accounting for uncertainty in species delineation during the analysis of environmental DNA sequence data

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An empirical approach to target DNA quantification in environmental samples using real-time polymerase chain reactions

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An insect ecosystem engineer alleviates drought stress in plants without increasing plant susceptibility to an above-ground herbivore

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi promote silicon accumulation in plant roots, reducing the impacts of root herbivory

scientific article published in 2017

Assembly processes lead to divergent soil fungal communities within and among 12 forest ecosystems along a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published in 2021

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

publication published on 30 September 2021

Benefits of silicon-enhanced root nodulation in a model legume are contingent upon rhizobial efficacy

scientific article published in 2022

Biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and ecosystem function

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Biogeography of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal spore traits along an aridity gradient, and responses to experimental rainfall manipulation

scientific article published in 2020

Branching out: towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology

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Bridging reproductive and microbial ecology: a case study in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

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Circular linkages between soil biodiversity, fertility and plant productivity are limited to topsoil at the continental scale

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Climate warming negates arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal reductions in soil phosphorus leaching with tall fescue but not lucerne

scientific article published in 2021

Community assembly of root-colonizing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: beyond carbon and into defence?

scholarly article published in January 2024

Comparative Herbivory Rates and Secondary Metabolite Profiles in the Leaves of Native and Non-Native Lonicera Species

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Compositional divergence and convergence in local communities and spatially structured landscapes

scientific article published on April 26, 2012

Cycling of extracellular DNA in the soil environment

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Deciphering the Relative Contributions of Multiple Functions within Plant-Microbe Symbioses

scientific article published in 2010

Deciphering the relative contributions of multiple functions within plant-microbe symbioses

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Delving into the dark ecology: A continent-wide assessment of patterns of composition in soil fungal communities from Australian tussock grasslands

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Detection of transgenic cp4 epsps genes in the soil food web

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Determinants of root-associated fungal communities within Asteraceae in a semi-arid grassland

scientific article published in 2013

Deterministic processes vary during community assembly for ecologically dissimilar taxa

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Distinguishing defensive characteristics in the phloem of ash species resistant and susceptible to emerald ash borer

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Distributional shifts in ectomycorrizhal fungal communities lag behind climate-driven tree upward migration in a conifer forest-high elevation shrubland ecotone

scientific article published in 2019

Divergent responses between lineages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to soil phosphorus and nitrogen availability

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Does threatened species listing status predict climate change risk? A case study with Australian Persoonia (Proteaceae) species

scientific article published on 06 October 2021

Dryland forest management alters fungal community composition and decouples assembly of root- and soil-associated fungal communities

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Ecological drivers of soil microbial diversity and soil biological networks in the Southern Hemisphere.

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Ecological understanding of root-infecting fungi using trait-based approaches

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Effect of glyphosate on the tripartite symbiosis formed by Glomus intraradices, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, and genetically modified soybean

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Effects of genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant crops and their management on soil food web properties and crop litter decomposition

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Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil

Endophyte community composition is associated with dieback occurrence in an invasive tree

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Environmental and Geographical Factors Structure Soil Microbial Diversity in New Caledonian Ultramafic Substrates: A Metagenomic Approach

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Erratum to: Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database.

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Evolutionary criteria outperform operational approaches in producing ecologically relevant fungal species inventories

scientific article published on December 24, 2010

Experimentally altered rainfall regimes and host root traits affect grassland arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Extraction and Purification of DNA from Wood at Various Stages of Decay for Metabarcoding of Wood-Associated Fungi

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Factors Affecting the Presence and Persistence of Plant DNA in the Soil Environment in Corn and Soybean Rotations

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Finding fungal ecological strategies: Is recycling an option?

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

Fine endophytes (Glomus tenue) are related to Mucoromycotina, not Glomeromycota

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

From patterns to causal understanding: Structural equation modeling (SEM) in soil ecology

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Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Good neighbors aplenty: fungal endophytes rarely exhibit competitive exclusion patterns across a span of woody habitats

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Growth Rate of Sprouts after Top Removal of Huisache (Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd.) (Leguminosae) in South Texas

scientific article published on 15 September 1972

High habitat-specificity in fungal communities in oligo-mesotrophic, temperate Lake Stechlin (North-East Germany)

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Host plant colonisation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stimulates immune function whereas high root silicon concentrations diminish growth in a soil-dwelling herbivore

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How novel are the chemical weapons of garlic mustard in North American forest understories?

article by E. Kathryn Barto et al published 14 March 2010 in Biological Invasions

Impact of forest management practices on soil bacterial diversity and consequences for soil processes

scholarly article by Federica Colombo et al published March 2016 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Improved Phytophthora resistance in commercial chickpea (Cicer arietinum) varieties negatively impacts symbiotic gene signalling and symbiotic potential in some varieties.

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Indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages protect grassland host plants from pathogens

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Initial wood trait variation overwhelms endophyte community effects for explaining decay trajectories

scientific article published in 2022

Integrated analysis of aboveground and belowground indicators support a comprehensive evaluation of ecosystem recovery

scientific article published in 2023

Interchange of entire communities: microbial community coalescence

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Interguild antagonism between biological controls: impact of entomopathogenic nematode application on an aphid predator, Aphidoletes aphidimyza (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

Intraspecific competition between ectomycorrhizal Pisolithus microcarpus isolates impacts plant and fungal performance under elevated CO2 and temperature

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Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

scientific article published in 2016

Invasive plant suppresses the growth of native tree seedlings by disrupting belowground mutualisms

scientific article published in May 2006

Linking Soil Organisms Within Food Webs to Ecosystem Functioning and Environmental Change

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Method or madness: does OTU delineation bias our perceptions of fungal ecology?

scientific article published in June 2014

Microbial functional diversity enhances predictive models linking environmental parameters to ecosystem properties

scientific article published on July 2015

Mycorrhizal and rhizobial colonization of genetically modified and conventional soybeans

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Mycorrhizal fungi enhance nutrient uptake but disarm defences in plant roots, promoting plant-parasitic nematode populations

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Mycorrhizal responsiveness trends in annual crop plants and their wild relatives—a meta-analysis on studies from 1981 to 2010

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Myristate and the ecology of AM fungi: significance, opportunities, applications and challenges

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Nitrogen niche partitioning between tropical legumes and grasses conditionally weakens under elevated CO<sub>2</sub>

Nitrogen niche partitioning between tropical legumes and grasses conditionally weakens under elevated CO<sub>2</sub>

Pastures and Climate Extremes: Impacts of Cool Season Warming and Drought on the Productivity of Key Pasture Species in a Field Experiment

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

Pedobiologia in 2015: The International Year of Soils

scholarly article by Jeff R. Powell & Nico Eisenhauer published March 2015 in Pedobiologia

Phosphorus availability and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi limit soil C cycling and influence plant responses to elevated CO2 conditions

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogenetic trait conservatism and the evolution of functional trade-offs in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2009)

Plant pathogen protection by arbuscular mycorrhizas: A role for fungal diversity?

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Plant trait effects on soil organisms and functions

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Plant-microbe interactions: novel applications for exploitation in multipurpose remediation technologies

scientific article published on 19 May 2012

Potentials and pitfalls in the analysis of bipartite networks to understand plant–microbe interactions in changing environments

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Priorities for research in soil ecology.

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Quantification and persistence of recombinant DNA of Roundup Ready corn and soybean in rotation

scientific article published on 13 November 2007

Quantitation of transgenic plant DNA in leachate water: real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis

scientific article published in July 2005

Rapid quantification of biological nitrogen fixation using optical spectroscopy

Real-time polymerase chain reaction monitoring of recombinant DNA entry into soil from decomposing roundup ready leaf biomass

scientific article published on 21 June 2008

Recent trends and future strategies in soil ecological research—Integrative approaches at Pedobiologia

Reciprocal Effects of Silicon Supply and Endophytes on Silicon Accumulation and Epichloë Colonization in Grasses

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Relationships between mycorrhizal type and leaf flammability in the Australian flora

scientific article published on 08 July 2017

Resolution of respect for Ekkehard von Törne (1925–2017)

scholarly article by Nico Eisenhauer et al published September 2017 in Pedobiologia

Resource allocation to growth or luxury consumption drives mycorrhizal responses

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Response of belowground communities to short-term phosphorus addition in a phosphorus-limited woodland

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Root type is not an important driver of mycorrhizal colonisation in Brachypodium distachyon

scientific article published in 2017

Roundup Ready soybean gene concentrations in field soil aggregate size classes

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Separating the effect of crop from herbicide on soil microbial communities in glyphosate-resistant corn

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Silicon accumulation suppresses arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonisation in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

Silicon enrichment alters functional traits in legumes depending on plant genotype and symbiosis with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria

scientific article published in 2021

Soil microbes and community coalescence

scholarly article by Matthias C. Rillig et al published January 2016 in Pedobiologia

Soil microbial communities influence seedling growth of a rare conifer independent of plant-soil feedback

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Species but not genotype diversity strongly impacts the establishment of rare colonisers

scientific article published in 2017

Symbiotic status alters fungal eco‐evolutionary offspring trajectories

scientific article published in 2023

Target Host Finding by Steinernema feltiae and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora in the Presence of a Non-Target Insect Host.

scientific article published on September 2004

Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates

Temporal dynamics of mycorrhizal fungal communities and co‐associations with grassland plant communities following experimental manipulation of rainfall

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Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

The Hydroponic Rockwool Root Microbiome: Under Control or Underutilised?

scientific article published in 2023

The Leinster and Cobbold indices improve inferences about microbial diversity

scientific article published in 2014

The effect of environmental and phylogenetic drivers on community assembly in an alpine meadow community.

scientific article published in November 2012

The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

The mycobiome of Australian tree hollows in relation to the Cryptococcus gattii and C. neoformans species complexes

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

The role of stochasticity differs in the assembly of soil- and root-associated fungal communities

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Towards robust and repeatable sampling methods in eDNA-based studies

scientific article published on 26 May 2018

Trade-Offs between Silicon and Phenolic Defenses may Explain Enhanced Performance of Root Herbivores on Phenolic-Rich Plants.

scientific article published on August 2016

Tree diversity modifies distance-dependent effects on seedling emergence but not plant–soil feedbacks of temperate trees

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Unpredictable assembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

scholarly article by Jeff R. Powell & Alison E. Bennett published January 2016 in Pedobiologia

Variations in nitrogen use efficiency reflect the biochemical subtype while variations in water use efficiency reflect the evolutionary lineage of C4 grasses at inter-glacial CO2.

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

When to cut your losses: Dispersal allocation in an asexual filamentous fungus in response to competition

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